Tarantino Will Write and Direct a Film Built on Swashbuckling Epics

IndieWire reports that Quentin Tarantino will write the script and direct a film inspired by grand swashbuckling epics of stage and screen. Two details carry the item: he is writing as well as directing, and the inspiration is named as a tradition rather than a title. Swashbucklers run on duels, disguises and verbal flourish — a register that belongs to performance as much as to cinema, which may be why the stage half of that description is doing as much work as the screen half.